Verboticisms

Created by: xtine

Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun

Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.

Etymology: wreckage, exploitation

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Created by: Rossco

Pronunciation: Doo-mon-gur

Sentence: This year's enviro-expo was full of doomongers.

Etymology: global destruction/damnation = doom + (blank)monger (purveyor of whatever)

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: gen-oh-save-yer

Sentence: The world is gonna explode from over-heating of the earths core... unless you buy ice, thats right, ice, but not just any ice, magic ice.

Etymology: genocide-savior

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Created by: MrPlow42

Pronunciation: Fud - bud

Sentence: Those fudbuds are now trying to convince us that our dogs aren't getting enough cheese.

Etymology: F.U.D. - Information Technology term for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. & Bud - friend.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um

Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.

Etymology: ecology + emporium

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COMMENTS:

You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: tear-uh-muh-ged-un-ist

Sentence: We have stopped inviting Cathy to the beach with us. Her terramageddonist reminders of how the beach sand which sticks to our feet increases erosion and leads to the extinction of all sea turtles, is too much for us to bear.

Etymology: terra (Earth) + armegeddon (end of Earth) + ist (pertaining to a person/organization); also, the tie with "terror" and "terrorist"

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: ee + col + oh + jeez + us

Sentence: Oh, don't worry about that guy - he just another ecolojesus... he's worried about the effect of dog hair on our planet.

Etymology: ecology + jesus

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Created by: Metalflower

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When bird flu hit the world, Ecounlogists made millions of dollars by selling face masks, which didn't help at all.

Etymology: Ecologist, unlogic

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Created by: Gionuzzo

Pronunciation: uh POK oh rich

Sentence: Hoboes with "the world will end!" signs do exactly the same thing as the apocorich company that made the Al Gore/Global warming movie, but the hobos don't make money!

Etymology: apocolypse + rich

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Created by: phdschub

Pronunciation: ter-ror-press

Sentence: Why does the terrorpress always find us in a state of impending doom. or 2)The terrorpress got to me again.

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